Scammed Family are Housed!
It seems that vacation home rental scams just won’t go away. Last month I had to help a party of 150 people out when the homes they had booked through a vacation rental agency failed to materialize and today I have found myself in a similar position. On local WESH 2 news last night a family told the story of their planned vacation and of how, after just arriving in Orlando, the vacation home they had rented failed to exist.
After hearing the story, I was more than pleased to be able to offer a helping hand and we managed to find them one of our Florida Leisure vacation homes to stay in for the next few days. In this case, three of the family had traveled ahead to prepare for the arrival of other family members so the others were forewarned there was a problem. Happily all of them will be getting together this afternoon after traveling to Orlando from New York and Miami today. It all ends well and you can see more on the story on Wesh 2 Orlando at 5pm tonight.
Here’s the link to the news story last night :
http://www.wesh.com/video/24587981/detail.html
I also gave Hilda and her family a copy of my book “What You Need To Know About Renting A Florida Vacation Home” so this never happens to them again!
Update: Other members of the family have arrived 🙂
Thank you for helping this family, I’ve been fighting disability for over 2 years and lost everything I owned, furniture, car, the house I rented for almost 6 years and was just approved and told I would have my Money Monday and was so sad cause I did not have the money to help this family out. Thank you so much and you will always be remembered and blessed.
Bless you
Sincerely
D.Morris
Dean Morris
August 12, 2010 at 1:13 pm